Saturday, 5 October 2013

Mary Magdaline

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"The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and
Secrets", by Barbara G. Walker.

Mary Magdalene

The Gospels say Jesus cast seven devils out of the sacred
harlot Mary Magdalene, and appeared first to her after his resurrection (Mark
16:9). Books later eliminated from the
cannon by Christian censors gave further curious details about the
relationship: Jesus loved Mary Magdalene
more than all other apostles, called Apostle to the Apostles and "the
Woman Who Knew the All," and often kissed her. He said she would excel every other disciple
in the coming Kingdom of light, where she would rule.

Before Gnostic Gospels were cut out of the canon, they were
accepted as the Word of God, as much as the synoptic Gospels and other New
Testament writings. Therefore medieval
traditions concerning Mary Magdalene hark back to her early mystical
supremacy. She was called Mary Lucifer,
"Mary the Light-giver." It was
said Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead solely for love of her. "There was no grace that He refused her,
nor any mark of affection that He withheld from her."

The Pistis Sophia made Mary Magdalene the questioner of
Jesus, in the Oriental manner of the catechism applied to the god by his Shakti
or Devi (Goddess). The female questioner
then was addressed as "Dearly Beloved." Jesus used the same form of address, though
later editors eliminated all traces of the identity of his questioner; but it
was apparent that his "dearly beloved" was Mary Magdalene.

Origen showed a mystic devotion to Mary Magdalene, confusing
her with the Goddess by calling her "the mother of all of us," and
sometimes Jerusalem,
and sometimes The Church (Ecclesia, another title of the Virgin). Origen claimed Mary Magdalene was immortal,
having lived from the beginning of time.

Thus it seems Mary the Whore was only another form of Mary
the Virgin, otherwise the Triple Goddess Mari-Anna-Ishtar, the Great Whore of
Babylon who was worshipped along with her savior-son in the Jerusalem temple. The Gospel
of Mary said all three Marys of the canonical books were one and the same.

Indeed, the Virgin and Whore were still confused with one
another in the 7th century A.D. when, on the day of the Nativity, of the
Blessed Virgin, Pope Sergius instituted an annual procession to the old temple
of the prostitute-goddess Libera, changing the temple's name to Santa Maria
Maggiore: Most-Great Holy Mary. It was not made clear which Holy Mary was
meant. A Gnostic poem merged the two of
them as a primal feminine power: "I
am the first and the last. I am the
honored one and the scorned one. I am
the whore, and the holy one."

Magdalene means "she of the temple-tower." The Jerusalem
temple had a triple tower representing the triple deity, one tower bearing the
name of the queen, Mariamne, an earthy incarnation of the Goddess Mari. This was the same Mariamne, Miriam or Mary
who took Joseph for her lover. Priestesses of this temple apparently
subsidized Jesus and his companions, according to Luke 8:1-3, which says Jesus
and "the twelve" were financially supported by Mary Magdalene and a
group of women. Latin text say the women
provided for "him" (Jesus), but Greek texts made it "them."

The seven "devils" exorcised from Mary Magdalene
seem to have been the seven Maskim, or Anunnaki, Sumero-Akkadian spirits of the
seven nether spheres, born of the Goddess Mari.
Their multiple birth was represented in her sacred dramas, which may
account for their alleged emergence from Mary Magdalene. An Akkadian tablet said of them: "They are seven! In the depths of the
ocean, they are seven! In the brilliancy of the heavens, they are seven! They
proceed from the ocean depths (Maria), from the hidden retreat."

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The Gospel says no men attended Jesus's tomb, but only Mary
Magdalene and her women. Only women
announced Jesus's resurrection. This was
because men were barred from the central mysteries of the Goddess. Priestesses announced the successful
conclusion of the rites, and the Savior's resurrection. The Bible says the male apostles knew nothing
of Jesus's resurrection, and had to take the women's word for it (Luke24:10-11). The apostles were ignorant of the sacred
tradition and didn't even realize a resurrection was expected: "they knew
not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead" (John 20:9).

Mari-Ishtar the Great Whore anointed-or Christ-end-her doomed god when he went into the underworld, whence
he would rise again at her bidding. That
is, she made him Christ. Her priestess
raised the lament for him when he died in the flesh, as a sacrificial
victim. In the Epic of Gilgamesh,
victims were told: "The harlot who anointed by with fragrant oil laments
for you now." Temple-women of Jerusalem raised the same
lament for Tammus (Ezekiel 8:14), with whom Jesus was identified. Jesus himself said Mary Magdalene anointed
him for his burial, pouring a precious unguent on his head in the time-honored
manner of the sacred king's crowning (Matthew 26:7-12). The christening-vase of holy oil was the ubiquitous
symbol of Mary Magdalene in Christian art-through the virgin Mary also bore the
harlot's title of Holy Vase.

Virgin and Whore constantly exchanged attributes through the
Middle Ages; the virgin Mary was consistently a special patron of
prostitutes. A Christian magic ring, now
in the London
museum, bears the legend, "Holy Mary Magdalene pray for me."

Pope Julius II by a papal bull established a
"sacred" brothel in Rome,
which flourished under his successors Leo X and Clement VII. The earning of this brothel supported the
Holy Sisters and magdalenes (whores)
were one of the same. Pope Innocent III
also favored Rome's
collegia of prostitutes, called virgines, "unmarried
women." He publicly announced that
any man who married one of them would be specially praised in heaven.

Much Christian myth-making went into the later history of
Mary Magdalene. She was said to have
lived for a while with the virgin Mary at Ephesus. This story probably was invented to account
for the name Maria associated with the Ephesian Goddess. Afterward, Mary Magdalene went to Marseilles, another town
named after the ancient sea-mother Mari.
Her cult centred there. Bones found at Vezelay and declared to
hers. Her dwelling was a cave formerly
sacred to the pagans, at St. Baume (Holy Tree).
For thirty years she lived there without eating or drinking, her only
nourishment the sweet songs of angels, "delightful repast" she daily
took in through her ears. A church was
built over her grotto. Local winegrowers
still offer votive candles to her for a good vintage, as if the
ancient-fertility-mother still occupied the site.

St. Martha accompanied Mary to Provence and worked a number of miracles
there. Meeting a dragon named Tarasque
(i.e. the Celtic deity Taranis), Martha destroyed him by tying him up with her
girdle and pouring holy water on his head.
Old images of the Twofold Goddess with her Great Serpent seem to have
been renamed Mary and Martha. More
often, Mary appeared as the typical feminine trinity ruling birth, love and
death. As Holy Mary at the Cradle, she
was the midwife (or birth-goddess) who delivered Jesus. As harlot and funerary priestess she was
linked with sex and death. Finally there
was the Gnostic suggestion that she was the original "pope,"
foundress of Christian church, according to the Oriental idea that spiritual
authority must pass from male to female and vice versa.

Some said she married St.
John the Evangelist.
In 12th century Milan they were
worshipped together in a dual cathedral built and administered by the monks of St. John jointly with the virgines of St. Maria Maggiore, also
entitled Sancta Dei Genetrix (Holy Mother of God). The androgynous cathedral was excavated in
1943-44, but its discovery was kept secret.

During the 13th century a DianicTemple
was rededicated to Mary Magdalene. At
Easter, the story of her conversion of the rulers of Marseilles was chanted at the altar. Later the sacred song was suppressed. Mary's devotees were forbidden to hold
mass. In 1781, the Magdalene temple was
demolished.

Rasa Von Werder, photographer, is building a Mega-Website to house her work; an education / spiritual vehicle that will put God back into Sex & Sex back into Religion. It is a fall-back to our Original Source: Mother God - When She was worshiped, women were venerated & Sex was Sacred. We will revive Goddess Religion, Shaktiism, & Tantra Sex. We will teach men how to worship God through the woman's body & how to make love to Her in a pleasing manner.

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Postscript

Pistis Sophia
(Faith-Wisdom)

A Gnostic scripture of the 3rd century A.D., translated from
the Greek to Coptic, setting forth the teachings of Jesus upon his return to
earth, 12 years after his resurrection.

Gospel of Mary

One of the early Gnostic Gospels, once included with the books of the New Testament but later eliminated form the canon. A copy was rediscovered in the 1940s at Nag Hammadi.